i'm going to upgrade some machines with Asrock A330GC boards with Dual-Core Atom 330 processors.
they all are running lfs dated may 2011, kernel 2.6.39, gcc 4.5.2. i built current dev without any problems, but booting was impossible. grub does not show anything. after the bios messages i just have an black screen with a blinking curser top left. waiting for 2 hours does not change anything... the disk does not start in any of 4 a330gc machines, but runs fine on some other machines with newer processors. (even on a asus at5nm10t with atom d525). after booting a ubuntu 10.04 lts live-cd i installed grub from ubuntu (saving the grub.cfg first and replacing the ubuntu autogenerated grub.cfg afterwards) and now the system runs fine as expected... (the system still has grub 2.0 installed, but i replace the bootloader and the /boot/grub stuff by just 'grub-install' from within ubuntu). restarting from scratch with grub 1.99 instead of 2.0 with everything else the same, the system boots as expected. i couldn't find any config options for grub to address this problem, and searching google and the grub bugtracker didn't help too. probably we are the first to install grub 2.0 on those older atlon boards... if somone else can confirm the failure with grub 2.0 on older atlons, i would suggest a warning in the grub page. tobias -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
